He kept his eyes on the trees, on the turn in the road ahead. Anything. But the whisper in his heart persisted:

Turn! One more wave, Ada - please!

He couldn't.

In those brief, horrible moments, he'd tried to explain that which no Elf could truly understand - what it was like to lose forever. He alone understood that kind of grief - and would again. But he knew that nothing would bring the reality clearer to Arwen than this.